Oxford Balliol College Library MS 354 (Richard Hill's Commonplace Book)

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Eng4
Location	Oxford, Bodleian Library
Siglum/Shelfmark	Balliol College Library, Oxford MS. 354, "Richard Hill's Commonplace Book"
Page/Folio range	39-112 (xviii r - liv v)

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	The Seven Sages of Rome
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum)	A (Seven Sages)
└ Language Group within Version	Middle English Version A
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Y Group
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)	Southern English
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text B
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Brunner (1933), Whitelock (2005)

Languages
Language of text	English
Regional or specific Language of text	Middle English
Source for regional or specific Language of text	Brunner (1933)

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation	https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/e0d10554-db39-4b58-a944-45da5e66248e/
Modern Editions	Brunner, The Seven Sages of Rome (Southern Version) (1933)

Authorship and Production
Scribe	Richard Hill
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	London
Date of Manuscript Production	1501 - 1533
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Brunner (1933)

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	248
Height	292
Width	108
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Verse
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	'Seven Sages', p. 39-112 (xviii r - liv v, contemporary numeration) 'Memorandum book' of Richard Hill - includes 'Godfrydus of Rome,' prose treatises on the management of horses and on grafting, The Seige of Rone, family memoranda, Anglo-French vocabularly including a bilinguial version of the Boke of Curtasie, excerpts from Confessio Amantis, songs and carols, romances (Apollonius of Tyr), etc.

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Brunner (1933), Whitelock (2005)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

Research Material